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  Ministers move to revive economic cooperation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The CEPGL structures that are to be re-launched cover economic, energy, conservation and social domains.
The first CEPGL meeting is scheduled for 15 September at the initiative of Burundi, currently president of the organisation.
The objective of the reactivation of the CEPGL is to consolidate peace and stability in the Great Lakes Region.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=42116   (656 words)

  
 CEPGL
Non-English Usage: "CEPGL" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.
"CEPGL" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time.
"CEPGL" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/CEPGL   (284 words)

  
 Congo, Rwanda & Burundi: Louis Michel convenes a meeting of the CEPGL in Brussels on 11 July   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL) was established in September 1976 and comprises institutions shared by Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
The fact that the mistrust and animosity of recent years has all but killed off the CEPGL is a clear illustration of this".
The ministers will probably discuss economic cooperation (agriculture and energy) and social cooperation, both of which could be launched within a revitalised CEPGL, working in conjunction with representatives of the European Union, African Union and United Nations.
diplobel.fgov.be /en/press/homedetails.asp?TEXTID=20971   (334 words)

  
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The idea behind CEPGL was to reconstruct the traditional links between the member countries that existed prior to independence.
CEPGL comprises five Specialized Technical Commisssions, dealing with: 1) political and juridical matters; 2) social and cultural matters; 3) planning, industry, agriculture and natural resources; 4) commerce, finance, immigration and tourism; and 5) public works, transport and energy.
In addition, there are four joint enterprises of the CEPGL, producing electric power, glass bottles, cement and hoes.
www.reliefweb.int /library/nordic/book1/pb020h.html   (4201 words)

  
 Revival of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries in Brussels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Together, the ministers expressed a determination which reflects their desire to make a clear, tangible contribution to pacifying and stabilising the region by reactivating the CEPGL and its institutions.
The CEPGL was founded in September 1976 and, meeting within the institutions shared by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, its main aims are to foster economic integration and promote cross-border cooperation.
The ministers decided that a Commission to evaluate and boost existing CEPGL instruments and mechanisms should be set up within the very near future with a view to submitting operational proposals.
www.diplomatie.be /en/press/homedetails.asp?TEXTID=21001   (453 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - africa/central_africa
Michel told a news conference following the meeting that he had a "firm commitment" from the three countries to re-establish the economic community, which was set up in 1976 and includes a bank to finance projects.
"The CEPGL is able to and should become the engine of a re-found regional peace," Michel earlier told the African diplomats.
"We are convinced that the CEPGL could today set up a framework to stabilise and make the region more secure," Charles Murigande, the Rwandan foreign minister, said.
www.sabcnews.com /africa/central_africa/0,2172,83429,00.html   (429 words)

  
 Speeches : Word of introduction by Minister Louis Michel at the meeting of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
By doing this, together we will help the region to regain a tool of integration and cooperation that should effectively shore up the current peace process and at the same time create the conditions of stability and prosperity which it has been lacking for far too long.
Together we will all be able to examine the reactivation of a CEPGL that is both true to the principles that underlay its establishment and suited to meeting the new challenges facing us today.
The CEPGL can - and must - become the catalyst for restoring peace to the region.
diplobel.fgov.be /en/press/speechdetails.asp?TEXTID=21115   (467 words)

  
 Congo Regeneration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Regional coooperation seems to have been one of the topics discussed by Murigande and Kabila.
It is not known whether discussions touched on the resurrection of the Great Lakes Economic Community (CEPGL) which was established in 1976 but has been on ice since 1994.
A year ago this month Congo and Rwanda were close to war with Kagame threatening to send in troops to protect what he called the persecuted Tutsi population in the Kivu region.
www.congo-regeneration.com /rwanda4.html   (230 words)

  
 Latest News From Rwanda
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are signatories, and therefore members of the WTO, COMESA, CEPGL and the Northern Corridor organization.
Trade in these products existed even before the establishment of CEPGL and there is absolutely no reason why it should have stopped in the 1990’s.
The CEPGL Agreement allows nationals of Rwanda, Burundi, and DRC to carry out Bank transactions in any of the three countries without hindrance.
www.gov.rw /government/04_22_01news_Responce_To_UN_Report.htm   (4262 words)

  
 Great Lakes: IRIN Weekly Round-Up, 6/23/97
It appeared no aid workers were based in the camps themselves, due to lack of funding and objections to regroupment although MSF in Karuzi was collecting malnourished children from the camps and taking them to feeding centres.
Rukingama said he hoped a revived CEPGL would enable free movement of goods, people and socio-cultural exchanges.
An advance UN human rights team arrived in Kinshasa on Friday, amid reports that the leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Laurent-Desire Kabila, was under pressure not to cooperate.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Hornet/irin_62397.html   (1750 words)

  
 CEPGL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CEPGL stands for: Communaute Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs (French)
- COMMUNAUTE ECONOMIQUE DES PAYS DES GRANDS LACS (CEPGL) B.P. 58 Gisenyi Rwanda Tél.: (250) 40 228 / (250)40 275 Télex : 602 CEPLG RW
This page was last modified 10:32, 31 March 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CEPGL   (145 words)

  
 Weekly Round-Up - IRINCEA-235: 16-Jul-04
The community, known by its French acronym CEPGL (Communaute economique des pays des grands lacs), collapsed in 1998 when fighting broke out between Rwanda and the DRC.
The CEPGL structures to be re-launched comprise economic, energy, conservation and social domains.
They will include the Development Bank of the Great Lakes States, based in the eastern DRC town of Goma; the Great Lakes International Electricity Company, based in Bukavu in eastern DRC; and the Great Lakes Energy Organisation, based in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura.
www.cidi.org /humanitarian/irin/ceafrica/04b/ixl2.html   (2234 words)

  
 DRCongo: conversations of Louis Michel with Kofi Annan and his Special Representative Ibrahima Fall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Secretary General highlighted the regional dimension of the issue of peacekeeping throughout the region.
The aim of this initiative is to rebuild maximum mutual trust between regional neighbours.
This CEPGL initiative incidentally combines perfectly with the Secretary General's initiative to organise an International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes Region.
www.diplomatie.be /en/press/homedetails.asp?TEXTID=20015   (466 words)

  
 Expatica - Living in, moving to, or working in Belgium, plus Belgian news in English
The aim of the talks is to breathe new life into an initiative called the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL).
The CEPGL was actually set up in 1976 but according to the Belgian Foreign Ministry a decade of wars in the region have "practically killed" the initiative.
The Belgians hope next week's talks will go some way to replacing the current bellicose relations between states in the Great Lakes region with more peaceful exchanges based on mutual trade.
www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=9170   (341 words)

  
 Lost Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
At a summit meeting in December 1981, the leaders of the Central African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC) agreed in principle to form a wider economic community of Central African states.
The UDEAC members and the members of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes States (CEPGL) (Burundi, Rwanda and the then Zaire) established ECCAS on 18 October 1983, to which joined Sao Tome and Principe.
ECCAS began operations in 1985, but was inactive since 1992, mainly due to the non-payment of membership fees by the member states, and political conflict in the region.
amantoin.brinkster.net /ri/site/view.asp?id=27   (254 words)

  
 ZAIRE.htm in Business Recorder on July 21, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
KINSHASA: Zaire's foreign minister said on Sunday he would seek fresh regional peace talks with troubled neighbours Rwanda and Burundi within the framework of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL).
Dismissing the efforts of the U.N. international tribunal on genocide in Rwanda, Kititwa Tumansi said that he would press for talks in the next few days on returning peace to the region.
I will meet my Rwandan and Burundian counterparts in the coming days to discuss the matter," he said.
www.paksearch.com /br96/July/21/ZAIRE.htm   (411 words)

  
 Discussion Paper 28: The European Union's Political and Development Response to the Democratic Republic of the Congo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
CEPGL Communauté Economique des Grands Lacs (Great Lakes Economic Community)
Crises in neighbouring countries have resulted in inflows of millions of refugees to the Congo, while the recent crisis in the DRC sent refugees by the hundreds of thousands to neighbouring countries.
Since 1998, however, several neighbouring countries that are members of those initiatives have sought to exploit the DRC’s resources, providing vivid examples of possible variations in the interpretation of the term ‘regional integration’.
www.ecdpm.org /Web_ECDPM/Web/Content/Content.nsf/vwSearchInternet/DBC7A90DC2F54277C1256C7C004DAD01   (14991 words)

  
 Great Lakes: IRIN Update 199, 6/24/97
* Foreign ministers of Rwanda, Burundi and DRC are due to meet in Kinshasa today to discuss reviving the dormant Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL).
Salvator Matata, CEPGL secretary-general, told Reuters the three would meet with economic experts.
He said everything had been held in abeyance because of crises in the three countries, but it was now necessary to restart economic activities.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin199.html   (1413 words)

  
 IOL: Great Lakes nations agree to work together
Brussels - Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo agreed on Sunday to boost an ailing economic co-operation forum to foster peace and bring more stability to central Africa's conflict-torn Great Lakes region.
"The CEPGL is able to and should become the engine of a refound regional peace," Michel earlier told the African diplomats.
"We are convinced that the CEPGL could today set up a framework to stabilise and make the region more secure," Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande told reporters.
www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=136&art_id=qw1089585001448B252   (519 words)

  
 Accord de cooperation sur la gestion des lacs partages de la CEPGL -
Accord de cooperation sur la gestion des lacs partages de la CEPGL -
Accord de cooperation sur la gestion des lacs partages de la CEPGL (Project)
Legal advice to CEPGL regarding the formulation of one or more mechanisms for cooperation in the management of shared lakes.
www.onefish.org /cds_static/en/accord_de_cooperation_sur_la_gestion_des_en_745_prjIPA3537.html   (137 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Belgium Ambassador briefed the Minister on the recently concluded meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Burundi, Rwanda and DRC under the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Region (CEPGL).
In this meeting, the Ministers discussed ways of achieving tangible and visible establishment of peace in the Great Lakes Region.
The Minister informed the Ambassador that with the revival of the East African Community which both Rwanda and Burundi had applied to join hopefully initiatives like the CEPGL could be broadened to cover this region.
www.mofa.go.ug /newsdetail.php?id=46   (321 words)

  
 International Constitutional Law - Organizations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
CEMA: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; also known as CMEA or Comecon.
CEPGL: Communaute Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs; see Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL).
CERN: Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire; see European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/gongo.html   (3501 words)

  
 Cyangugu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Nevertheless, pursuant to Rule 98, the Chamber proprio motu directs that the Prosecutor introduce into evidence the regulations of the CEPGL regarding the processing of passports of nationals of member states extant on the dates in question, i.e., 10 and 11 April 1994.
DENIES the Motion in its entirety; and further
DIRECTS the Prosecutor, pursuant to Rule 98, to tender into evidence the regulations of the CEPGL regarding the handling of passports of nationals of member states extant during April 1994.
www.ictr.org /ENGLISH/cases/Ntagerura/decisions/210503.htm   (1489 words)

  
 The 1992 CIA World Factbook eBook by United States Central Intelligence Agency
CEMA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; also known as CMEA or
CEPGL Communaute Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs; see Economic
CERN Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire; see European
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/48/835.html   (198 words)

  
 untitled.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
CEMA -- Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; also known as CMEA or
CEPGL -- Communaute Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs; see Economic
CERN -- Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire; see European
facstaff.uww.edu /rambadtd/channel/abbrev.htm   (698 words)

  
 Abbreviations for International Organizations and Groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
CEMA -- Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; also known as CMEA or Comecon; abolished 1 January 1991
CEPGL -- Communaute Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs; see Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL)
CERN -- Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire; see European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
infomanage.com /ngos/abbrev.htm   (816 words)

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